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To: hsmomx3

The majority of people don't know enough to teach others even children. Then there are the recent horror stories of starvation, torture performed by the darkside of home "schooling" which uses that as an excuse to keep the children out of the sight of the public so as to hide the abuse. So trying to paint the entire phenomenon as though it was ALL FReepers or other conscientious parents is a bit too much.

And the costs of all doing this would be staggering even if all were successful.


86 posted on 04/07/2005 12:43:57 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Then there are the recent horror stories of starvation, torture performed by the darkside of home "schooling" which uses that as an excuse to keep the children out of the sight of the public so as to hide the abuse

Oh please! There are just as many stories of abuse at schools. Those people who are abusing their children while supposedly homeschooling them were doing it when their kids were IN school, and in most cases were already known to the child welfare agencies.

It's just the media's attempt to paint all homeschoolers as right wing Christian odd balls who have no business teaching their kids. What's interesting is that there are just as many homeschoolers who are NOT doing it for religious reasons, but you rarely hear about them.

As for your contention that most people don't know enough to teach their kids, just how much to you have to know to teach a child to read? Not much. It's fairly easy to teach a child their math facts.

When the kids get older, and they've moved into subjects about which their parents know little, they can either teach themselves ( like our daughter did with Japanese), or we can hire tutors, the kids can take co-op classes with other homeschoolers, or attend a Community College, as our daughter is doing for Chemistry and Physics so she can have access to good labs.

97 posted on 04/07/2005 12:52:02 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: justshutupandtakeit
The majority of people don't know enough to teach others even children. Then there are the recent horror stories of starvation, torture performed by the darkside of home "schooling" which uses that as an excuse to keep the children out of the sight of the public so as to hide the abuse. So trying to paint the entire phenomenon as though it was ALL FReepers or other conscientious parents is a bit too much.

There are crimes committed against children by a wide variety of sickos in this world. Those caught and found guilty by a jury of their peers should be severely punished. Agree?

Now, let's get to this "majority" of people who don't know enough to teach their own children. Have you looked at any test results lately? Here is a link that you might be interested in. It shows the statistical evidence of homeschool academic superiority over public schools: Mash Here
99 posted on 04/07/2005 12:52:56 PM PDT by politicket
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Do you think you could put this post into standard English ?


111 posted on 04/07/2005 1:04:36 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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